Auto Industry Shifts Gears On Where Data Gets Processed
By Ann Steffora-Mutschler, Semiconductor Engineering
How to manage massive amounts of data in real time still isn’t clear, but it can’t be done in the cloud.
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“In addition to bandwidth concerns, any wireless communication technology is subject to interference, dropout, congestion, and delay,” said Sergio Marchese, technical marketing manager at OneSpin Solutions. “Autonomous vehicles will have to carry enough compute power to make decisions on their own. To that end, we have to look at what companies like Tesla are doing. Just this past year, they announced their Full Self-Driving Chip, which allegedly can process 2,300 frames per second. It is in production and can be even retrofitted on previous models.”